The past two years I lived in the United States as many of you already know, well for me one of the most important moments there was Thanksgiving in both years. 

The event is not as important as what it meant to me, or as what I learn as an outsider, because for the ones that doesn’t know in Mexico we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.

I learn about family and about how close a culture can be, close in different meanings, the adjective and the verb make a difference here, close as in short distance, as in family and closed as in not open.

Close as in short distance, well, Mexican culture and the American have something in common, we get together in certain dates with the family, the mexican culture tend to be every Sunday or in the most remote case in Christmas, the american culture get together with the whole family on Thanksgiving, the only thing, isn’t Thanksgiving about people moving away, leaving home from their own choosing a life that is different from their parents life, well how do they celebrate it, spending time with their families (close as a verb) ironic.

Well it’s not only about that, for me it became of thanking for what I have, for what I receive, for getting blessings from someone more powerful than me, that let all the causal things to lead my life to a certain point, meting new friends, or finding again old friends, of how family is important, on how loves of the past have done something to make me who I am today, and even more important, how mistakes doesn’t necessary are mistakes in the worst way, but decisions taken by different people, that will take my life, and the one who is related to change in a way, to improve or to find out that those mistakes were wrong decisions that have consequences.

Tonight I wanted to thank that person above me for everything I have, starting, from my own life, from my own experiences that I have lived, from my family that have race me the way I am, for friends that have become family with out sharing the blood, for the people that love me and the ones that have loved me before, for the people that even didn’t like me, because in a way that has made me stronger, or show me my mistakes. I really want to show my appreciation and gratefulness for all of those moments, for showing me how someone can be better because of you.

I had thanksgiving dinner in Mexico, I eat turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, cranberry sauce, and more stuff, I miss cornbread, and little things, like the people that open their home and their heart for me on the past 2 years that I live in Warrensburg.

I miss hugging them and saying thank-you and enjoying time with them, mainly thats what I want to do tonight.

Thank each one of you for making my life so special, for helping me be who I am today. This doesn’t mean that only on Thanksgiving you help me, it means that you help me to become who I am, at some special moment in the past years.

With all my heart thank you to each one of you
Even thou many know I am not that religious

G0d Bless you all and your families ;-) 

-song of the night

Mr. Turkey, Mr. Turkey
Run away, Run away
If you don’t be careful
You will be a mouthful
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day